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Old 22nd May 2013, 17:54
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What you really need is a video of the old NDB approach from Cheung Cheu to Stonecutters and then the Chequerboard before the IGS came along and made it easy!
JW411, first a disclaimer. I have never done the CC approach into Kai Tak in anger. Years ago I did it in the Hawker sim at Flight Safety with an instructor who had done many of them, in all kinds of weather. He'd set up a typhoon with the viz on limits, and talked me through the visual portion after breaking out of cloud and following the visual flight path. Just after touchdown, an errant gust from the typhoon blew the aircraft 90 degrees to the runway and we trundled off into the drink. The instructor gave me a whack on the back of the head and said "You dumb ****, you've just closed the only non communist airport in SE Asia that's above limits."
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